Posted Friday, November 6, 2009 --- 5:05 p.m.

"We obviously have had another real shock to all the people of WI with what has happened at Fort Hood," Gov. Doyle said Friday. "It is a terrible tragedy for all of us but particularly for those families. My understanding, again we don't have this officially, but that they were members of the 467th medical company."

Press Release:
Flags lowered to half-staff in Wisconsin to honor fallen at Fort Hood

November 6, 2009
Flags at Wisconsin National Guard armories, air bases and other facilities across the state will fly at half-staff through sunset Nov. 11 in honor of the victims of the shootings at Fort Hood Nov. 5. The National Guard will render these honors in accordance with an executive order issued by Gov. Jim Doyle.

EXECUTIVE ORDER # 295 reads:
Relating to a Proclamation that the Flag of the United States and the Flag of the State of Wisconsin be Flown at Half-Staff as a Mark of Respect for the Victims of the Shootings at Fort Hood Army Base, Texas

WHEREAS, Wisconsin joins the Nation in sorrow for those who lost their lives and loved ones, and in concern for those who were wounded, in the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on November 5, 2009, at Fort Hood Army Base, Texas; and

WHEREAS, it is always difficult to lose our courageous service members overseas, but it is shocking to lose these men and women in a senseless act of violence at an Army Base on American soil; and

WHEREAS, the people of the State of Wisconsin mourn the loss of the victims who died as a result of this shooting; and

WHEREAS, the thoughts and prayers of the people of the State of Wisconsin go to the wounded and the families of the fallen;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JIM DOYLE, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me by Federal and State law, do hereby order that the flag of the United States and the flag of the State of Wisconsin be flown at half-staff at all buildings, grounds and military installations of the State of Wisconsin equipped with such flags beginning forthwith and ending at sundown on November 11, 2009.

All Wisconsin state government facilities are covered by the governor's order and federal facilities are covered by a proclamation issued today by President Barack Obama. Other government agencies, businesses and private residences with flagpoles may honor the Fort Hood fallen by lowering their U.S. and Wisconsin state flags to half-staff during daylight hours until sunset Nov. 11.